Nonfiction November: Books that Made Me Laugh

Just at the last minute your girl swoops in to chime in on Nonfiction November! Here are some nonfiction books that are informative AND entertaining

~~Books Mentioned~~
-A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
-Hells Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
-Conquest of the Useless - Werner Herzog
-The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room - Greg Sestero
-My Life - Benvenuto Cellini
-Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs - John Lydon
-Fargo Rock City: A Heavy-Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota - Chuck Kloserman
-The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King
-Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War - Tony Horwitz
-Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
-Revolutions: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Fiction - Alex Good

[RememberedReads]

Interesting choices! I always automatically think of travel and food writing as being the funniest nonfiction (outside of straight comedy and comedian memoirs, of course), and I love that you bypassed those styles of humour almost completely here! :)

[PaperBird]

Would love to hear Herzog narrate the DFW essay

[ClaireReadsBooks]

I read parts of Confederates in the Attic in college, and I remember being shocked at how strict the reenactors were about being period-accurate with regard to their clothes, food, etc. I’d love to go back and read the whole thing.

[LauraFreyReadinginBed]

It looked like a naked child??? Damn, Werner! And lol.

[LauraFreyReadinginBed]

Just ordered Fargo Rock City for my husband's Christmas present. He grew up listening to Iron Maiden in rural alberta, so he might relate...

[acruelreadersthesis]

David Foster Wallace is “totally pretentious”? Well I guess he’s right up my alley! 🤣🤣

[timetoread]

Confederates in the Attic sounds great!! Gonna add that one for sure.

[MaryAmongStories]

great video, thank you for the recommendations ^^

[tortoisedreams]

Well, only read Hunter T & Klosterman (2 or 3 of his ... they all runtogether). But this is a good lead as I think I'm going to need more humor in 2019 ... & 2020, OMG. Bring on the funny ones! Have you done a video about the funniest books you've read of any sort? Just read The Fan Man (fiction) by William Kotzwinkle & the humor did me good. I'm going to track down some of these ... I'm going only use them medicinally, tho. Gotta find Cellini ... good fun!

[challengethyshelf]

Red Letter Media has incredible reviews and discussions of The Room. "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"

[svance]

So interesting. Thanks for sharing these books!

[corajohnston]

I love Ex Libris! I think it was just so much fun to read and so relatable for readers

[josmith]

It does seem as though so many non fiction books talked about are dark and depressing so it was nice to see the lighter side of the genre. I remember Bill Bryson making me laugh in the bath while reading Notes from a Small Island but I’m not sure if you have to be British to truly appreciate it. I think travel books are often an area where humor is a big part of it, I guess David Foster Wallace’s essay on cruising- the ship kind- is an example of that.

[bighardbooks]

Good to see you! You know I love all Hunter. Rotten TBR! I want to read this new Churchell, too: